NEW BERLIN – It was Senior Night at Stadium for the Unadilla Valley Storm as they faced off against the visiting Warriors from Sidney.
After a scoreless first half, the Storm opened the floodgates early in the second as UV’s Devon Fairchild chipped a pass over the Sidney defense to a streaking Dylan Nichols.
Nichols fired a shot past Sidney goalie Andrew Vinal to go up 1-0 a mere 4 minutes into the second half.
Two minutes later, it was who Nichols sent a long diagonal pass across the field to teammate Geordan Keach. Keach netted his first goal in a Storm uniform and gave the home team a two goal advantage.
The game was capped by senior captain Ben Avolio’s goals as he took the ball down the middle of the field and rifled a rocket from 25 yards with 28 seconds remaining.
The win puts the Storm at 7-8 overall on the season. Unadilla Valley will face Sidney again for a third time at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at home.
Unadilla Valley 3, Sidney 0
(0-0 at half)
Goals-Assists: (S) None; (UV) Dylan Nichols 1-1, Geordan Keach 1-0, Ben Avolio 1-0, Devon Fairchild 0-1.
Shots-Corners: (S) 6-1; (UV) 6-7
Saves: (S) Andrew Vinal 4, Tim Grow 2; (UV) Brandon Kneale 6.
Greene 3, Bainbridge-Guilford 2 (OT)
BAINBRIDGE – Bainbridge-Guilford continued to provide a tough game with the No. 8 Greene Trojans as they have both times these two teams have met this season.
Needing overtime to decide a winner, Greene’s Caleb Davenport assisted on River McCumiskey’s game winner with three minutes remaining in the first overtime to keep the Trojans’ regular season conference record perfect.
Greene struck first when McCumiskey found Alec Frair streaking towards the goal. Frair rifled a shot and put the ball past B-G’s goalie Zach Graham, giving the Trojans a 1-0 lead.
The Bobcats responded later in the first half with Easton Port providing a through ball to teammate Gavin Farrell. As the pass was out in front of him, Farrell chased it down then added a tapping touch to the ball that went past the end line between the posts.
The game remained tied into the intermission.
Taking the lead once again was the Trojans’ in the second half when Brad Taft finished a pass from teammate Dustin Markham.
Answering was Ryan Porter of the Bobcats with a converted penalty kick, tying the game at 2-2 and forcing overtime.
The extra session went back and forth until Greene got the advantage with Davenport’s pass to McCumiskey.
Greene heads to Oneonta for the MAC Championship game against Walton at 10:15 a.m. Saturday.
Greene 3, Bainbridge-Guilford 2 (OT)
(1-1 at half)
Goals-Assists: (G) Alec Friar 1-0, River McCumiskey 1-1, Caleb Davenport 0-1, Brad Taft 1-0, Dustin (last) 0-1; (B-G) Ryan Porter 1-0, Gavin Farrell 1-0, Easton Porter 0-1.
